Word: workmanship
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...return for a fabulous sum of money. The fourth, a "Red" Stradivari, was just recently released from a physician's care; its tone wanted strengthening. For these four fiddles Mr. Warburg paid $200,000. It is not for antiquity this sum has been paid. It is for workmanship. After 200 years, they are still the work of a hand that has never found a rival. Though it is rumored that Mischa Elman has discovered a young Russian exile in Oregon whose work is unique for its artistry, and musicians are hoping that he will in time become the 20th...
...royalty the Princess concludes: "On the stage and upon the motion picture screen we are portrayed with diamond crowns and robes of ermine.... As a matter of fact I have purchased exactly two new gowns in the last two years. Both are all Bulgarian in style, material and workmanship. . . . Princesses do not bedeck themselves .... We, like all women, deserve the best of our fatherland and of humanity as good housewives...
Author Hergesheimer is repeatedly accused of vulgarity, never of slack workmanship. Hot color, detail as meticulously perfect as a showgirl's makeup, are his special contribution to serious letters. Sometimes a deep pulse of life makes itself felt, sometimes an incomparable atmosphere passes over the hard surfaces, as in Java Head and The Three Black Pennys. But mostly, labor faithfully though he obviously does, Author Hergesheimer remains a short-range camera, loaded with a thick film. "No Grifolifes...
...understand, is how it is possible for American industries to pay higher wages than we are paid and yet undersell us on the same product in the world market. It may be that it is your massed production and standardization against our old theory of good workmanship, based on the individual. That is what we have come...
...decade back. He declared the 1% improvement was due to increased newspaper reading and to the prevalence of hobbies nowadays. Every hobby teaches words. He announced: "These figures are not startling, but they seem indicative of an improvement. We cannot think without tools. Good tools and good workmanship go together...